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TIL The first black pilot in history was an Ottoman colonel named Ahmet Ali Çelikten

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4X4Qw TIL that the Icelandic language has a term, "gludda vedur" (glue-ca ver-tish), which describes weather that's nice to look at, but not nice to be out in. It loosely translates to 'window weather'.
OGlQR TIL there is a species of fish who have a singular lung and can breathe fresh air like humans
XQKX TIL Richard Feynman made one mistake in his Feynman’s Lectures book and one student got her answer wrong in a exam. To her Feynman wrote “In science, believe in logic, not in authorities; I goofed and you goofed it too for believing me”
Wkp74 TIL Warren Buffett once took Bill Gates to McDonalds. He offered to pay, and then reached into his pocket and pulled out coupons.
4bPw TIL during WWII, prisoners in a Russian gulag escaped into the Siberian wilderness, walked hundreds of kilometers through blinding snow to Lake Baikal, crossed the Mongolian border, traversed the Gobi desert and hiked across the Himalayas to reach freedom in India. 4000 km… entirely on foot.